American Defense Secretary Robert Gates was keeping up the pressure on Iran, in the latest move Gates went to Saudi Arabia for consulting about how to respond to Tehran’s disputed nuclear program. U.S. official said Gates would discuss shared concerns over Iran’s nuclear intentions during meetings with Saudi King Abdullah and senior leaders
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Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan wants to boost bilateral ties with Afghanistan, and vowed to increase trade ties between the two countries as well. Gilani expressed these views during a joint press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Islamabad today. Gilani also declared increase in the scholarships...
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PML-N’s Pervez Malik won his seat of NA-123 Lahore with heavy margin on Wednesday while PML-N candidate Azam Chaila clinched his seat of PP-82 Jhang. PPP’s candidate Nasir Jamali won his seat of PP-25 Jaffarabad and Muslim League Zia’s candidate Shahid Anjum declared successful in PP-284 Bahawalnagar. Activists and members of winnings parties...
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The House of Representatives on Wednesday roundly defeated a resolution demanding President Barack Obama withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan, in a key election-year test for his war strategy. Lawmakers routed the resolution in a 356-65 vote that saw 60 of Obama’s Democratic allies and five of his Republican critics cast ballots to...
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Two persons, including the son of Maulana Abdul Ghafoor, Amir of a banned religious outfit, were killed, while five people including Maulana himself and another of his sons got severely injured in Nazimabad, Karachi. Karachi Amir of an outlawed religious organisation Ahle Sunnat Maulana Abdul Ghafoor received gun shots at his abdomen and...
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Police has booked PML-Q Information Secretary Marvi Memon for leading a protest demonstration against provincial government’s obstinacy regarding contractual employees of the National Programme for Implementation of Watercourses (NPIW) in Karachi today. The NPIW contractual employees have been staging a sit-in outside Karachi Press Club by the of for the last seven days...
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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taliban insurgents and said Afghanistan’s neighbours must support such an agreement.
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President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday night called for Pakistan and Afghanistan to stand together and persuaded the international community to devise a Marshal Plan for the region to banish the militancy and its effects for all time to come. “The two countries need to speak the same language at international forums because...
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Six killed in attack on aid agency in Mansehra : United States-based Christian aid agency staff and seven wounded, one of them goes missing* The agency suspended operations in various parts of Pakistan Staff Report Entered the training: The terrorists stormed an office of World Vision International, based in the United States and...
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Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to revive the process of the Loya : ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed on Wednesday to revive the process of the Loya major joint to develop a common strategy on the promotion of Kabul ‘reintegration and reconciliation’ plan. This decision was taken during a meeting between Pakistani President Asif...
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